UPCOMING EVENTS

Google Street View added its first-ever skyscraper today, and the company started with a bang: the world’s-tallest Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

At 2,717 feet, 160 floors, and almost a kilometer in height, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest manmade structure in the world. Now you and I can tour it without ever visiting Dubai, courtesy of Google Street View. But with heights like these revealing the city of Dubai, the sea, the interior passages of the building, and the highest pool in the world, Google is going to have to find a new name for “Street View.”

Clearly, it’s not just streets any more:

Google used its back-pack camera system, the Trekker, as well as a rolling model, to capture the building inside and out over a three-day shoot. That includes views from the window-cleaning baskets that cling to the 80th story, and the world’s-tallest observation deck on the 124th floor, and yes, the highest swimming pool in the world on the 163rd floor.